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Should boffs be allowed to wear off duty outfits?

trekfangrrrl#6910 trekfangrrrl
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in Star Trek Online General Discussion
I know there are probably pros and cons on both sides, so I'm curious to see what the community thinks.

Should boffs be allowed to wear off duty outfits? 132 votes

Yes (all boffs to wear off duty outfits)
87%
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No (do NOT allow boffs to wear off duty outfits)
12%
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  • ussvaliant#6064 ussvaliant
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         Member Posts: 1,006 Arc User
    edited August 2018
    Yes (all boffs to wear off duty outfits)
    The one thing boffs should def be allowed to wear is ALL PARTS of a lobi uniform. I'm looking at you Tzenkethi Armor


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  • warpangelwarpangel Member Posts: 9,427 Arc User
    Yes (all boffs to wear off duty outfits)
    1. Boffs should be able to wear everything.
    2. Category restrictions should be removed entirely for making the game worse.
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  • postagepaidpostagepaid Member Posts: 2,899 Arc User
    No (do NOT allow boffs to wear off duty outfits)
    If someone wants to run about with a gaggle of bikini clad boffs with the chest slider set to constant backpain then they can play a kdf.

    The way boffs behave they don't deserve any off duty time or the privileges that come with it.

    I'd much rather they sort cosmetics for the players so we can avoid insanely stupid locks such as those that appear on the tsunkatse gloves.
  • christopher082christopher082 Member Posts: 67 Arc User
    Yes (all boffs to wear off duty outfits)
    I remember playing a foundry mission, can't remember the name, where you started out camping before stuff happened. Because foundry authors can't remove away teams, you were camping with your officers. It would have been nice to be able to put them in appropriate off duty outfits
  • echattyechatty Member Posts: 5,924 Arc User
    Yes (all boffs to wear off duty outfits)
    I think we should be able to play Space Barbie with our BOFFs too. At least when they're not off on missions with you.
    Now a LTS and loving it.
    Just because you spend money on this game, it does not entitle you to be a jerk if things don't go your way.
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  • davefenestratordavefenestrator Member Posts: 10,874 Arc User
    Yes (all boffs to wear off duty outfits)
    Yes, why not. If I want a baseball team, bikini squad, tuxedo gang or whatever that's my fun and doesn't hurt anyone else.

    I'd buy more costumes if they were usable on my boffs.
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  • jamieblanchardjamieblanchard Member Posts: 561 Arc User
    edited August 2018
    Yes (all boffs to wear off duty outfits)
    I'm all for space barbie with boffs. I'm itching to put my crew in Aloha shirts for that McHale's Navy experience! ♥

    ~glares at the forum langolears as she adds additional thoughts ...~

    Heck, G.I. Joe's characters had them wearing all sorts of things on their action figure's uniforms. Baseball and football jerseys ... heck, I think one bloke even had a full blown baseball uniform! And an aloha shirt on Chuckles, Bazooka's football jersey. Heck, Quick Kick ran around without a shirt! Anywho, if the casual approach is good enough for G.I. Joe, then by golly, it's good enough for STO boffs! Besides, all things considered, shouldn't our crews be an elite force of sorts anyway?
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  • captainkenny1captainkenny1 Member Posts: 329 Arc User
    Yes (all boffs to wear off duty outfits)
    I voted yes because we need it badly, my ferengi crew need those jackets!
    Also why can we change some holoboffs their uniforms ( like the holo Geordi boff) and others totally can not? ( tos crew)?
  • jade1280jade1280 Member Posts: 868 Arc User
    Yes (all boffs to wear off duty outfits)
    The real question is why the heck is this not already in the game?
  • davefenestratordavefenestrator Member Posts: 10,874 Arc User
    Yes (all boffs to wear off duty outfits)
    captainkenny1 wrote: »
    I voted yes because we need it badly, my ferengi crew need those jackets!
    Also why can we change some holoboffs their uniforms ( like the holo Geordi boff) and others totally can not? ( tos crew)?

    That one makes more sense, since Cryptic needs agreement from CBS and the actor to use their likeness in-game, and it's probably only approved for the one look (two for Leeta).

    They don't have a way to lock tailor changes to a set of preset looks, so they can't do something like offer 4 different canon uniforms for Geordi.

  • djf021djf021 Member Posts: 1,382 Arc User
    Yes (all boffs to wear off duty outfits)
    I would never vote no on more personal customization.
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  • mez83mez83 Member Posts: 255 Arc User
    Yes (all boffs to wear off duty outfits)
    I'd like to put one of the Talaxian boffs from the lobbi store in a talaxian outfit.
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    Yes (all boffs to wear off duty outfits)
    christopher082 wrote: »
    I remember playing a foundry mission, can't remember the name, where you started out camping before stuff happened. Because foundry authors can't remove away teams, you were camping with your officers. It would have been nice to be able to put them in appropriate off duty outfits
    There are already things that are technically uniforms that really don't look it. :p
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  • warpangelwarpangel Member Posts: 9,427 Arc User
    Yes (all boffs to wear off duty outfits)
    markhawkman wrote: »
    christopher082 wrote: »
    I remember playing a foundry mission, can't remember the name, where you started out camping before stuff happened. Because foundry authors can't remove away teams, you were camping with your officers. It would have been nice to be able to put them in appropriate off duty outfits
    There are already things that are technically uniforms that really don't look it. :p
    I've often wondered if they like roll dice or something to decide what restrictions to put on a clothes item. They are that arbitrary.
  • nimbullnimbull Member Posts: 1,568 Arc User
    edited August 2018
    Yes (all boffs to wear off duty outfits)
    I'm for no uniform restrictions on characters/boffs that you can obtain for your character's faction. KDF in starfleet uniforms and vice versa not at all obviously as the only valid restriction. However both sides should have equal color options.
    Green people don't have to be.... little.
  • captainkenny1captainkenny1 Member Posts: 329 Arc User
    Yes (all boffs to wear off duty outfits)
    > @davefenestrator said:
    > captainkenny1 wrote: »
    >
    > I voted yes because we need it badly, my ferengi crew need those jackets!
    > Also why can we change some holoboffs their uniforms ( like the holo Geordi boff) and others totally can not? ( tos crew)?
    >
    >
    >
    >
    > That one makes more sense, since Cryptic needs agreement from CBS and the actor to use their likeness in-game, and it's probably only approved for the one look (two for Leeta).
    >
    > They don't have a way to lock tailor changes to a set of preset looks, so they can't do something like offer 4 different canon uniforms for Geordi.

    But the likeness concerns the face, so the uniform doesn’t matter, just like the emh boff. I just want my tos crew in movie uniforms, not change their faces or anything
  • davefenestratordavefenestrator Member Posts: 10,874 Arc User
    Yes (all boffs to wear off duty outfits)
    captainkenny1 wrote: »
    > @davefenestrator said:
    > captainkenny1 wrote: »
    >
    > I voted yes because we need it badly, my ferengi crew need those jackets!
    > Also why can we change some holoboffs their uniforms ( like the holo Geordi boff) and others totally can not? ( tos crew)?
    >
    >
    >
    >
    > That one makes more sense, since Cryptic needs agreement from CBS and the actor to use their likeness in-game, and it's probably only approved for the one look (two for Leeta).
    >
    > They don't have a way to lock tailor changes to a set of preset looks, so they can't do something like offer 4 different canon uniforms for Geordi.

    But the likeness concerns the face, so the uniform doesn’t matter, just like the emh boff. I just want my tos crew in movie uniforms, not change their faces or anything

    But with the tailor as it is you could put them in *anything*, and this is guessing but the approvals might be tied to the appearance as a whole.

  • mneme0mneme0 Member Posts: 498 Arc User
    Yes (all boffs to wear off duty outfits)
    warpangel wrote: »
    I've often wondered if they like roll dice or something to decide what restrictions to put on a clothes item. They are that arbitrary.

    This.

    Also weird is how certain colors are locked together for no apparent reason. I know of at least one case where my character's eyeball color was locked to the secondary color of a glove.

    Mismatched palettes are hell in this game. Romulan green doesn't match Federation green? Why do I have half a dozen different palettes in any given character's outfit? I've made content for games with weird palette functions and restrictions before. 8-bit bitmaps with class-based palettes were a nightmare... in 1999. Why the cuss we have palette restrictions at all in 2018 I don't know.
  • davefenestratordavefenestrator Member Posts: 10,874 Arc User
    Yes (all boffs to wear off duty outfits)
    mneme0 wrote: »
    warpangel wrote: »
    I've often wondered if they like roll dice or something to decide what restrictions to put on a clothes item. They are that arbitrary.

    This.

    Also weird is how certain colors are locked together for no apparent reason. I know of at least one case where my character's eyeball color was locked to the secondary color of a glove.

    Mismatched palettes are hell in this game. Romulan green doesn't match Federation green? Why do I have half a dozen different palettes in any given character's outfit? I've made content for games with weird palette functions and restrictions before. 8-bit bitmaps with class-based palettes were a nightmare... in 1999. Why the cuss we have palette restrictions at all in 2018 I don't know.

    Very good point. Even if the uniform pieces use a palette index, moving to 24-bit color would only cost 2 more bytes per piece per uniform.

    I was trying to match KDF and Romulan colors on a boff a couple of days ago and as you say the greens don't match. Since CBS clearly allows non-canon colors for STO uniforms there's nothing preventing Cryptic from fixing this.

  • echattyechatty Member Posts: 5,924 Arc User
    Yes (all boffs to wear off duty outfits)
    mneme0 wrote: »
    warpangel wrote: »
    I've often wondered if they like roll dice or something to decide what restrictions to put on a clothes item. They are that arbitrary.

    This.

    Also weird is how certain colors are locked together for no apparent reason. I know of at least one case where my character's eyeball color was locked to the secondary color of a glove.

    Mismatched palettes are hell in this game. Romulan green doesn't match Federation green? Why do I have half a dozen different palettes in any given character's outfit? I've made content for games with weird palette functions and restrictions before. 8-bit bitmaps with class-based palettes were a nightmare... in 1999. Why the cuss we have palette restrictions at all in 2018 I don't know.

    I noticed this on one of my alien captains where the color of the inner part of the Ocampa Ear 1 is tied to his spot color.
    Now a LTS and loving it.
    Just because you spend money on this game, it does not entitle you to be a jerk if things don't go your way.
    I have come to the conclusion that I have a memory like Etch-A-Sketch. I shake my head and forget everything. :D
  • warpangelwarpangel Member Posts: 9,427 Arc User
    Yes (all boffs to wear off duty outfits)
    mneme0 wrote: »
    Also weird is how certain colors are locked together for no apparent reason. I know of at least one case where my character's eyeball color was locked to the secondary color of a glove.
    That's an artefact of the engine being recycled from Champions Online. There, the tailor has buttons that allow players to link certain colors together to make it easier to create a consistent color scheme on an outfit without having to individually recolor every piece. They've removed those buttons from STO's tailor (probably because the feature totally would not work with STO's palette restrictions), but the code is still there and if something trips it you get these weird lock-ins that can be difficult to disengage.
  • talonxvtalonxv Member Posts: 4,257 Arc User
    Yes (all boffs to wear off duty outfits)
    Not only should boffs be able to wear everything, they should also have multiple options for outfits like the captain.
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  • captainkenny1captainkenny1 Member Posts: 329 Arc User
    Yes (all boffs to wear off duty outfits)
    > @talonxv said:
    > Not only should boffs be able to wear everything, they should also have multiple options for outfits like the captain.

    They do
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    Yes (all boffs to wear off duty outfits)
    captainkenny1 wrote: »
    > @talonxv said:
    > Not only should boffs be able to wear everything, they should also have multiple options for outfits like the captain.

    They do
    He means the ability to swap boff outfits when not at the tailor.
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  • wideningxgyrewideningxgyre Member Posts: 710 Arc User
    No (do NOT allow boffs to wear off duty outfits)
    You pose the question as if it were only a matter of giving permission to do so.

    In reality, it takes programming time and resources, both of which I'd rather be spent on a laundry list of other activities, instead of letting boffs wear off duty outfits.

    Besides where would they even wear them? It's not like you can bring them along to Risa or even ESD.
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    Yes (all boffs to wear off duty outfits)
    wideningxgyre wrote: »
    You pose the question as if it were only a matter of giving permission to do so.

    In reality, it takes programming time and resources, both of which I'd rather be spent on a laundry list of other activities, instead of letting boffs wear off duty outfits.

    Besides where would they even wear them? It's not like you can bring them along to Risa or even ESD.
    Off-duty category can be worn anywhere that the boff goes.
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